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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.netrail.net!not-for-mail From: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 28 Apr 1996 21:10:13 GMT Organization: NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! (703)524-4800 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4m0mrl$qcl@skipper.netrail.net> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <317CAABE.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <4lt098$erq@itchy.serv.net> <Pine.SUN.3.90.960427140735.3161C-100000@tulip.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: netrail.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Jamie Bowden (bowden@cs.odu.edu) wrote: : The classic failing of unix boxes as a router is that the max throughput : is about 2mbit...it's a limit of the os...this is not just a freebsd : thing...we have tested this in SunOS4.1.x, and Solaris 2.x, and have had : communications with others who have tried with other platforms (free and : proprietary). 2mbit seems to be about the limit. We have seen way more then this going through our MAE-East and other routers, and they are P133s running FreeBSD 2.1.0. CDROM.COM gets close to 100 mbps through there FreeBSD routers. So I don't think so, but you are right in that fact that a PC will route the packets over the CPU and something like a cisco 7000 route packets interface to interface and only uses the cpu to do bgp4 and stuff. -- Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34